Vehicle-wheel



UNITED STATES PIA-TENT OFFICE.

GODFRIED LAUBE,OF HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF JOSEPH HYMANS, OF DEL'RIO, TEXAS.

VEHICLE-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 533,990, dated February 12, 1895.

Application inea March 24,1894. sel-iai No. 504,917. (No man.)

of which the following is aispecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing. Y

This inventionY relates to certain new and useful improvements in wheels and particularly to that class remployed on childrens v carriages.

In the suburbs or rural districts, where board walks are commonly employed, great inconvenience is experienced and serious accidents occur during the travel of childrens carriages over the same, owing to the sudden sinking of the wheels between the boards and the `violent wrench given the body ofthe vehicle ofttimes precipitates the occupant to the ground. To obviate such objections, a double felly wheel has been provided, but as the substitution of such improved form for the old, entails comparatively large expense and is ofttimes/'impossibla the adoption of this form of wheel has been greatly delayed.

It is the object of this invention to provide a simple and effective means for broadening `the tread, which maybe used independent of the felly, that is, attached to the spokes in lieu of the felly, or in combination with a double felly, thus eifectually overcoming the objections aforesaid and at a greatly reduced cost of manufacture. l

With these and other objects in view, various combinations and arrangement of parts are employed, which will be hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically pointed out in the claim.

l In describing the invention in detail, reference is had to the yaccompanying drawing,- which forms part of this specification, in which the ligure is a view in perspective of a double felly wheel with my improvements applied thereto.

In the drawingz-A, denotes the Wheel, d -a2, the fellies; -a3--, the spokes; -a4-, the hub and -B an interposed connecting band between the fellies and the spokes. This band B-A is preferably given an approximately ellipticalcross-section, although it may be varied as desired, and formed of a series of alternating right and left hand semi-circular bends and by reference to the drawing it will be seen that when the band is properly adj usted or positioned, as there shown, the center of each 'of said bends aords sufficient surfacefor the passage of a rivet, which latter also enters an aperture-of one of the fellies,

GoDFEIED LAUBE.

Witnesses:

ANNIE T. LAUEE, HATTIE RosE LAUBE.

6o Portions of this band bridging the space bef 

